BILL NUMBER: AB 613	CHAPTERED  09/02/99

	CHAPTER   299
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 2, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 1, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 19, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 16, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 15, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wildman
   (Principal coauthor:  Senator Solis)
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Gallegos, Knox, Margett, Migden,
Oller, Romero, Scott, and Steinberg)

                        FEBRUARY 19, 1999

   An act relating to employment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 613, Wildman.  Employment:  JESF and TIPP programs.
   Existing law establishes the Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the
Underground Economy (JESF) and requires the strike force to perform
certain duties, including, among other duties, facilitating the
development and sharing of information by the participating agencies
necessary to combat the underground economy, developing methods to
pool, focus, and target the enforcement resources of the
participating agencies in order to deter tax evasion and maximize
recoveries from blatant tax evaders and violators of cash-pay
reporting laws, and reducing enforcement costs wherever possible by
eliminating duplicative audits and investigations.
   Under existing law, the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement
operates a program known as the Targeted Industries Partnership
Program (TIPP) that focuses on the garment and agricultural
industries and works to ensure the enforcement in those industries of
state and federal laws pertaining to labor and to health and safety
in the workplace.
   This bill would require the Department of Industrial Relations to
include the janitorial and building maintenance industry within the
TIPP commencing in the 1999-2000 fiscal year, and within the JESF
commencing in the 2000-01 fiscal year.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares that the Joint
Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy (JESF),
established pursuant to Section 329 of the Unemployment Insurance
Code, enforces payroll tax laws in many sectors, including the
construction and service industries.  The Legislature finds and
declares that the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement of the
Department of Industrial Relations operates a program known as the
Targeted Industries Partnership Program (TIPP).  The Department of
Industrial Relations also shall include the janitorial and building
maintenance industry within the TIPP commencing in the 1999-2000
fiscal year and within the JESF commencing in the 2000-01 fiscal
year.
